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The Lincoln-Way High School District 210 board held a special meeting Saturday to explain to parents which criteria they are using to determine which one of the four schools they must shutter to help close a budget deficit.

When it was discovered that the cornerstone of St. Peter's United Church of Christ in Frankfort couldn't be unearthed for a recent centennial celebration, there was definitely some disappointment, anniversary committee member Chip Krusemark said.

South Holland's police chief says youth may have contributed to an officer's response during a recent investigative stop that was recorded on a cell phone and tweeted to tens of thousands of Twitter accounts.

A German shepherd is recovering at an animal shelter after being rescued recently by Worth police from a locked, unventilated garage when her owners left her and Cook County authorities failed to remove the dog, according to police.

After the Cook County Board passed a sales tax increase in order to cover its pension debt, a frustrated Democratic member of the panel wondered why the governor isn't pushing a state constitutional amendment to change the so-called diminishment clause which the Illinois Supreme Court used as its...

Never get into a heated argument with a person armed with a gun, especially if that individual also has a badge. That's pretty simple advice most of us can live by, but what about those people who don't? Are they just stupid?

Dorothy Worst chuckles softly at the notion of being considered a hero, let alone a superhero. But to the young Allied soldier whose head she cradled as he lie dying in a transport boat during World War II, she was no doubt larger than life.

I decided to pay a visit to two men at the Cook County Jail who are charged with masterminding a scheme to place squatters in at least a dozen foreclosed houses on Chicago's Southwest Side, and maybe as many as 60 throughout the city.

As members continue to get bombarded by emails and social media comments, the Lincoln-Way High School District 210 board will hold a special meeting next Saturday to answer questions from the public regarding closing one of the four high schools.

Lockport Mayor Steve Streit was dumbfounded when state workers suddenly packed up exhibit pieces and closed the Illinois State Museum in the city's downtown July 1 without informing him, and he vowed to reopen it.

Crestwood Mayor Lou Presta's hope that the village can annex some nearby unincorporated areas may be dashed, if the sentiment of residents of those areas who showed up at a meeting Thursday night is any indication.

The taverns that line the stretch of Western Avenue that slices through the charming and historically significant neighborhood of Beverly on the Far South Side are lively and essential places. As taverns have for generations across this city, they function as social gatherings spots where people...

If Cook County businesses are worried about losing shoppers to Northwest Indiana when their sales tax bumps up 1 percentage point on Jan. 1, Indiana business leaders want them to know it's already happened.

As Palos Park resident Sean Morrison was being handed a seat on the Cook County Board by his fellow GOP township committeemen Wednesday night, one woman objected, claiming over and over that Republicans "are supposed to be the party of good government."

A two-year battle to clean up what Will County and Bolingbrook officials consider a junkyard won't be over any time soon, now that county board members failed to approve zoning variances for the small property in DuPage Township.

For the first time in almost 20 years, the Special Olympics World Games will be held in the United States, with representatives from 165 countries headed to Los Angeles where the Games' opening ceremonies begin Saturday.

If I am a government official who wants a job for his son and you are a mayor who wants a road project for his city, I can promise you the needed funds in exchange for appointing Junior as public works director of Happy Town — knowing I have not committed a criminal act.

A 21-year-old Oak Lawn woman was charged Tuesday night with reckless homicide and several other violations stemming from a fatal hit-and-run accident that occurred shortly after midnight Saturday in the 19100 block of Oak Park Avenue, after a Jason Aldean concert at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre...

Firefighters had to help evacuate several people, but no one was hurt in a Tuesday night fire that extensively damaged the clubhouse at Crystal Tree Golf and Country Club in Orland Park, authorities said.

Chicago Ald. Matt O'Shea, 19th, is still fuming over a decision by a Cook County judge to release two men accused of masterminding a plot to illegally occupy more than a dozen homes in the Beverly and Morgan Park communities.

Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn has been recognized among the top 50 hospitals in the nation in four medical specialties, including cardiology and heart surgery, according to a prestigious annual rating system.

Cook County prosecutors presented evidence Tuesday that a former deputy chief for the Oak Forest Fire Department had extravagant living expenses during the time his wife was embezzling about $350,000 from the fire district where she worked.

Cook County prosecutors on Monday described a former Oak Forest deputy fire chief and his wife as a "criminal organization" for allegedly embezzling about $350,000 from the Palos Heights Fire Protection District.

In what will go down in political annals as a monumentally stupid comment, Donald Trump indicated that just because Arizona Sen. John McCain was captured during the Vietnam War, he shouldn't be regarded as a war hero.

A 25-year-old Chicago man died Saturday morning after being hit by a vehicle in the parking lot of a Chicago Heights strip club, and the Cook County medical examiner's office on Sunday ruled his death a homicide.

A proposal to expand two luxury auto dealerships in Orland Park is headed to the Village Board with a recommendation for approval, but nearby residents say the bigger businesses could bring more noise and brighter lights shining into their homes.

Illinois doesn't have a two-party system of government. It has a two-person government: Bruce Rauner and Michael Madigan. And neither man has anything to lose by a long political stalemate in Springfield.

A 34-year-old Wilmington man was charged with child grooming, a Class 4 felony, after an investigation prompted by Will County Sheriff's deputies finding him alone with two juvenile girls in a hotel room, officials said.

The Lincoln-Way High School board of education eliminated two of its three options Thursday night, and in effect agreed that the only way out to get off the state's financial watch list was to close a school.

The largest provider of respite care services in the south suburbs, Good Shepherd Center headquartered in Hazel Crest, has laid off all of its employees who provide in-home care for individuals with cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy and other developmental disabilities due to the state budget crisis.

Will County will continue to issue temporary permits to overweight trucks, but county officials also are working with a new legislative committee to find more efficient ways to keep trucks moving through the county and state.

The Oak Forest City Council gave its approval Tuesday to a contract that will pay nearly $6.4 million to a Milwaukee-based company that will help the city deal with the problem of water leaking from its municipal tanks.

Alsip police on Wednesday still were conducting interviews as the investigation continued into the stabbing death of Tanessia Ray, who was found dead Monday night in her apartment in the 4300 block of West Park Lane Drive, police said.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle persuaded just enough commissioners to approve a 1-percentage-point sales tax increase Wednesday — the culmination of a major political about-face, but a move she said was needed to bail out the county worker pension system.

Maurice Dailey, the final defendant accused of participating in a controversial grave-digging scheme at historic Burr Oak Cemetery pled guilty Tuesday to desecrating and removing human remains and removal of gravestones or markers, according to a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s...